I’ve included a collection of ‘Business Lessons’ extracted from this truly exceptional tome. While they say history doesn’t repeat, it does rhyme, and despite two centuries passing since Vanderbilt first plied his trade ferrying cargo on New York’s harbour, the lessons in his business success remain as relevant today as they were then. The book’s most useful learnings might relate to the insights into Vanderbilt’s business acumen. Nicknamed ‘ The Commodore’, Vanderbilt’s endeavours fighting brutal short-squeezes, double-crossing business partners, a race to provide passage across the Panama, personally saving the US stock market and the gifting of his largest ship to the Union Navy to fight the Civil War are relayed in vivid detail. The ‘ First Tycoon - The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt’ tells the fascinating story of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the business magnate who built an empire in shipping and then, at the ripe old age of seventy, in US railroads.
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